Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Life, Letters, and Speeches of Charles Dickens, Vol. 1 of 2: With Biographical Sketches of the Principal Illustrators of Dickens's Works
The wonderful vitality of Charles Dickens is apparent in his writings as collected in the previous volumes of this edition. Yet there is another illustration of his genius to be seen in his voluminous correspondence, and this correspondence shows the man in the friendly relations which he held both with men of letters and artists of his generation, and with others socially responsive. His letters then belong among his writings most distinctly, and the present collection is gathered from Forster's Life and from the collection published by Miss Hogarth and Miss Dickens, the latter containing a number of very lively let ters, originally printed by 'mr. Fields in his Yesterdays with Authors. It does not profess to be an exhaustive collection, even as the sources from which it is drawn are selective, but it is so full as to offer abundant illustration of the private and public life of a man very Open in his disclosure of himself.
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